Knitted fabric.



A. S. MUSGROVE.

KNITTEDFABRIC.

APPLICATION FILED AUG.24, 1909.

978,622. Patented Dec. 13,1910.

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' specification.

, stitch-loop from one row ofloops across an more fully described and subsequently pointed out in theclaims.

cylinder machine,

ing drawings,

' produce an open-meshed ribbed knitted fab- -mesh with a row 'bodying my invention.

' by the needles on the dial; the third row by knitted by hand or upon a knitting machine.

"UNITED STATES PATENT onnicn. I

ARTHUR s. musenovn, or PITTSFIELD, MA

SSACHUSETTS, ASSIGNOR, IBY DIRECT AND MESNE ASSIGNMENTS, TO SCOTT 8c WILLIAMS, INCORPORATED, OF PHILADELPHIA, PENNSYLVANIA, A CORPORATION OF NEW JERSEY.

KNITTED Application filed August 24,

T 0 all whom it may concern:

lie/it known that I, An'rinm S. Mus unovn, a citizen of the United States, residing at Pittsfield, county of Berkshire, and State of Massachusetts, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Knitted Fabric, of which the following is a The invention relates to such improve ments and consists ofthe novel construction and combination of parts hereinafter described and subsequently claimed.

Reference may be had to the accompanyand the reference characters marked thereon, whichform a part of this specification. Similar characters refer to similar parts in the several figures therein.

The principal object of my invention is to ric formed by transferring stitches while knitting the same, wherein the openings are well defined and regular in form, and surrounded by intermeshing stitch-loops which are 'not distorted in shape or weakened by displacement.

The invention consists in transferring a causing such loop to interof loops beyond the row crossed by such loop, as will hereinafter be adjacent row, and

The single figure of they drawing is a plan view on a greatly enlarged and'exaggerated scale of a pIece of knitted fabric em- Th'edrawing shows four vertical rows or wales, 1,2, 3, 4, of intermeshing stitchdoops.

When said fabric is knitted upon a machine comprising a'needle-dial and a needlethe first row of loops, or wale would be formed by needles on the cylinder of the machine; the second row of loops or Wale the needles on'the cylinder, and the fourth row by the needles on the dial, the wales throughout the entire fab; ric andbeing drawn to opposite faces of the fabric. 7

The improved fabric shown herein can be knitted upon a dial-and- It is preferably the machine being pro- Specification of Letters Patent.

formed by the stitches standing wale to FABRIC.

Patented Dec. 13, 1910.

1909. Serial No. 514,335.

\ided with transfcr-mcchanism, by means of which a stitch-loop upon one dial needle can be transferred to the next preceding dialneedle, as, for example, referring to the drawing, loop, 5, except for the transferriiw mechanism woul'l have occupied the C(lltlifi part of the opening, (3, in thevdrawing, but the same having been transferred from the dial-needle forming the row of loops, 2, to the next preceding dial-needle, which needle would form the loops in row,-4, such loop would intermesh with the row, 4:, of loops, and be located alongside of the loop in such row, 4, which occupies the same course of stitches or loops that loop, 5, would occupy if it had not been transferred. The horizontal rows of stitches as courses.

The vertical are known or longitudinal stripes are termed wales the stripes formed by the loops which embrace the needles being termed standing wales, and those formed by theloops which connect. together the loops of neighbori standing wales being termed sinker wales.

It will be apparent from the foregoing description that my improved'fabric is provided with eyelet-holes formed in certain standing wales by the transfer of a stitch from one standing Wale to another standing walc across an intervening standing wale.

What I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent is-' A knitted-fabric provided in-one of its 1. standing wales with an eyeletaperture formed by a stitch transferred from said another standing wale across an intervening standing Wale.

2. A knitted ribbed fabric having a standing wale on one face intervening between two standing wales on the other face of the fabric,

and provided with an eyelet aperture formed in one of said two wales by a stitch transferred therefrom across said intervening Wale to the other of said two wales. I L

In testimony'whereof, .I have hereunto set 109 my handthis 14 day of August,1909.

ART UR s. MUSGROVE.

Witnesses: I W

Howmm H. BROWN, J mm P. CAPELERR. 

